15 Nov
2007
15 Nov
'07
2:38 p.m.
On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:22 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
There was a lot of clever thought and a lot of
elegance in early
hardware and
software that seems sadly lacking in more current stuff. My recent
comment
about WordStar's so apparently seamless switch from all-in-memory
to using a
bunch of disk space I commented on recently being one example. I have
patched the living hell out of the copy of ws.com I used, doing
all sorts of
stuff to it -- because I could! :-) Sure it took some doing, but
these
days a lot of knowledge of that sort seems to be just about lost
completely. :-(
What, you can't patch ws.com anymore? ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007